FURTHER DETAILS OF THE MARTYRDOM OF HAZRAT SAHIBZADA MAULVI ABDUL
LATIF, THE BLESSED

Mian Ahmad Noor, a favourite and trusted disciple of Hazrat Sahibzada
Maulvi Abdul Latif, arrived at Qadian on 8th November 1903 from Kohat
together with all the members of his family. He has stated that the
body of the Maulvi Sahib was left under the heap of stones for forty
days on the spot where he was stoned. Then during the dead of night
I, together with some of my friends, went and quietly took out the sacred
body from under the stones and brought it secretly to the town. Although
there was great risk of our being caught by the retainers of the Amir,
owing to cholera raging as epidemic in the town, everyone was preoccupied
with his own woes and worries. We, therefore, observed the burial rites
calmly and took the body to the graveyard and buried it reverently.
The amazing fact is that when we took out the body from under the stones,
it sent forth a perfume like musk and everyone was greatly astonished.

Prior to the sad incident of the martyrdom, the divines had, under
the direction of the Amir, gathered together to hold a dialogue with
the Maulvi Sahib who said to them: You have two gods, because you fear
the Amir as you should fear God, while I have only One God, for which
reason I do not fear the Amir.

When the Sahibzada, before his arrest, was one day sitting in his house,
and there was the slightest indication of the portending trial, he raised
both his hands and looking at them said: O my hands, will you bear handcuffs
with good grace? His wife who was standing near him, became agitated
and enquired: Why do you talk thus? The Sahibzada replied: You shall
know after 'Asr (afternoon prayer service). It happened exactly as he
had said. Just after 'Asr Prayer a number of police constables and officials
came and arrested him. Before he left, he said to the members of his
household: I am now going away. Be mindful that you do not adopt any
other way. Remain firm and steadfast on the belief and faith that I
hold.

After his arrest, he saw a great crowd in the street and looking at
them he said: I am the bridegroom of this procession.

During the dialogue the divines asked him: What do you say about him
who is in Qadian and claims to be the Promised Messiah?

The Maulvi Sahib replied: I have seen that man and have pondered over
him deeply. There is none like him on the face of the earth. Without
the least doubt he is the Promised Messiah and he is reviving the dead.
Hearing this the Mullahs shouted: He is a renegade and so are you also
a renegade. On behalf of the Amir, they threatened him with being stoned
to death if he did not detract from his new beliefs. He had realised
that he was going to die. So he recited the verse of the Holy Quran:

Lord, let not our hearts become perverse after Thou hast guided
us; and bestow upon us mercy from Thyself, surely, Thou art the Great
Bestower (3:10).

When the Maulvi Sahib was about to be stoned to death, he recited the
verse:

Thou art my Helper in this world and the Hereafter, cause me
to die in a state of complete submission to Thy Will and join me to
the company of the righteous (13:102).

Then they cast stones at him and he was martyred:

Surely to Allah do we belong and to Him shall we return
(2:157).

The very next day cholera broke out in Kabul in a virulent form and
among the first to be attacked was the House of Nasrullah Khan, the
brother of Habibullah Khan, the Amir, who was one of the bitterest enemies
of the Maulvi Sahib. Nasrullah Khan's wife and child became the very
first victims of the epidemic. About four hundred people died daily
in the town. On the night of the martyrdom the sky had become red.

Prior to the event, Maulvi Sahib often said that he had received the
revelation: Go thou to Pharaoh, I am indeed with thee, hearing and seeing:
Thou art perfumed and anointed with amber. He also said: I have received
the revelation: Heaven is bewailing and the earth is trembling like
one who shivers under malaria. The world is not aware of it but it is
going to happen. He also said: I repeatedly receive the revelation:
Surrender thy head and hesitate not because God has willed this for
the benefit of the land of Kabul.

Mian Ahmad Noor has added further that the Maulvi Sahib was in prison
for a month and a half. We have mentioned that he was kept in prison
for four months. We wrote that exactly as it had been reported to us
previously. This minor discrepancy is not of much consequence as there
is complete unanimity in respect of all salient features.